Loose-leaf box-tablet.



W. S. MATTHEWS.

LOOSE LEAF BOX TABLET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-20,1915.

Patented May 30, 1916.

WITNESSES INVENTOR.

Q BY

ATTORNEb WILLIAM S. MATTHEWS, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

LOOSE-LEAF BOX-TABLET.

Application filed September 20, 1915. Serial No. 51,711,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. MAT- THEWS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loose-Leaf Box-Tablets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a writing tablet, free from glue or gum or binding on the edge or edges, and inclosed in a special made box for the purpose. I accomplish this object by the device shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of the body of the box filled with loose sheets of paper, the lower right hand corner of the top sheet being shown slightly lifted and separated from the balance of the sheets; Fig. 2 is the cover of the box which is adapted to fit closely over the box and paper when the tablet is not being used, and Fig. 3 shows an empty box, the cover thereof partly broken away.

Similar letters refer tov corresponding parts in the drawings, A representing the bottom of the box and B B the sides for retaining the paper in the box when it is open.

C C indicate loose leaf sheets of writing paper with which the box is filled and D in dicates the corner of a loose sheet of the same lifted in position for removal from the box after being used.

As shown in Fig. 1 the right hand side of the bottom of the box and the lower end of the bottom of the box have for sides to retain the paper small extensions, E and F respectively, leaving the above indicated side and lower end free from obstruction to the hand of the writer.

The box may be made in various sizes to Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3'11, M2016.

fit the style of pap the length may be made longer or shorter and the width broader or narrower and the depth deeper or shallower as the style of tablet necessitates.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the kind described the combination of loose leaves of paper and a box and a telescopic lid, a bottom, one end and one side of the bottom of the box being complete and portions of the other side and end cut away to prevent interference with the hand and wrist when writing on the tablet.

2. A device of the kind described comprising a box with a solid bottom and a telescopic lid, one side and one end being complete, and diagonally opposite sections on the other side and end to prevent the leaves slipping out of the box.

3. A device of the kind described comprising a shallow box having a solid bottom, one side and one end, the corresponding opposite side and end consisting of short extensions leaving an open space from extension to extension, and the leaves held in position therein.

4. A device of the kind described comprising the bottom and a side and one end of the rim of the box, diagonally opposite extensions of the rim on the other side and end of the box, loose sheets of paper fitted in said box and a loose lid to close the top, sides and ends of the boxa In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM S. MATTHEWS.

Witnesses:

JOHN Q. ADAMS, STEPHEN A. MOORE.

patent may be obtained for five eente each, by addreesing the Commleeioner of Watenta aehington, D. G." 

